Vulcanized-oil product



- No Drawing. Original application WALTER O; SNELLING, 0F ALLENTOWQT, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 192i.

filed May 22 1915, Serial No. 29,765. Divided and this application filed August 21, 1919. Serial No. 318,967.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER O. SNELLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allentown, in the county of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Vulcanized-Oil Products, (being a division of application S. N. 29,765, filed May 22, 1915,) of which the following is a specification.

The general object of'my invention is the preparation of, cohesive and plastic masses possessing certain of the general properties of rubber, and capable of being used in part as a substitute thereof, and in part as compounding ingredients, capable when mixed with other'substances such as resins, rubber, gutta percha, and like materials,'of yielding products having advantageous properties which by vulcanization or other appropriate treatment may be still further modified and changed to yield products having desirable properties of cohesiveness,-toughness, elastieity andplasticity.

In my application above which this is a division, 1[ have disclosed methods of producing rubber-like products by vulcanizing a vegetable oil under conditions which permit of the later transformation of the ori inal vulcanized product into a tough, coheslve and plastic product, and I have also disclosed a method by which related vulcanized oil products of fluid nature and unique properties may be prepared.

In my said application ll disclosed, but did not specifically claim, certain modifications of my general method of preparing plastic vulcanized oil products, and the object of my present application is to cover a modified process of preparing plastic vul canized oils, and the products obtained through the use of such process.

It has long been known that when a fatty oil is admixed with a small amount of sulfur chlorid, a reaction occurs with the production of a body very difierent in nature from the original oil. The reaction is generally recognized to be very similar to the reaction which occurs when rubber is brought in ,contact with sulfur chlorid, and the product obtained is generally known.as-fact1s;

ganic bodies are able to bring about deep under, suitable conditions the factis can be transformed into aplastic mass having many referred to, of

tions within the mixture,

of the properties of unvulcanizedrubber.

-While I do not know the exact nature of the internal changes which occur, the action of the hydroxylated organic bod brings about the depolymerization of the actis, with an increase in the attraction exerted by the smaller molecular aggregates upon other like molecular aggregates, with consequent. development of plasticity.

There are a lar e number of hydroxylated organic bodies which are capable of acting upon factis to give plastic products. As examples of suitable hydroxylated bodies I.

my invention.

According to my present invention it first make factis by vulcanizing a fatty oil, and I then depolymerize the vulcanized oil product'so prepared by the use of a hydroxlated organic body. Suitable factis may be madeby mixing 16 c. c. of carbon bisulfid and 6'? c. c. of cotton-seed. oil, and after stirring these materials together adding to the mixture 17 c. c. of sulfur chlorid. Heating soon begins. from chemical reacand as soon as the heating seems to reach a .maximum with some evidence of frothing, the liquid is poured out on a smooth surface in a ti about 1 mrm. in thickness. Preferably stirring is continued during the entire, period of H crushed or ground. and. exposed to the air I have discovered that hydroxylated or-.

The factis prepared as above isplaced in a small vesse and a suitable amount of a depolymerizing agent is added. The de- .for a period of several days before treat,- ment; seated changes in-the, nature of factis, so that polymerizing agent should be thoroughly adand left for about one-half hour, to enable the de olymerizing' a ent to be absorbed by the fa tis. Sulfur ch lorid is then added to the contents of the vessel, the factis being preferably stirred during the addition of the sulfur chlorid. The vessel should now be closed and left for four hours, at the end of which time the contents of the vessel should be depolymerized to liquid condition. This liquid representshighly depolymerized material, and should now be repolymerized to a solid of suitable plasticity, preferably by agitation' with water. In my preferred form of procedure I pour the contents of the vessel into water, and agitate thoroughly with a beater. The liquid changes to a light colored floccu'lent product, which may be formed into a plastic but tough sheet by working it between rollers. 7

The depolymerized and repolymerized product made in accordance with my present invention has many valuable properties of toughness and flexibility, and may be employed in the preparation of floor tiles, belting, and many other purposes for which rubber and leather are now commonly used. By suitably modifying the time that the material remains in the liquid state before the repolymerization is brou ht about, the color and other physical c aracteristics of the material may be modified to a considerable extent. A long period depolymerized condition tending to 'give of standing in i polymerized product, while a lengtheningof the time elapsing between the agitation-of the liquid depolymerized product with water and the sheeting operation leads to a great decrease in plasticity, or'even to the formation of very products. I

From the foregoing statement will be evident that the range of modifications which tough but wholly non-plastic may be effected in my process is very great,

My invention should therefore not be considered as being limited to the specific illus trations given, but should be understood to cover all equivalents of the materials and methods that have beentioned, and no limitations are to be imposed upon my invention except such as are indicated in the appended claim.

I claim as my invention:

A liquid vulcanized oil product capable of being transformed intoa solid factis-like material on contact with water.

In testimony whereof, I. have hereunto subscribed my name this 20thday of August,

WALTER 0. SN ELLIN G.

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